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>>831651 (OP)

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OpenPOWER:

Raptor Engineering sells POWER9 workstations, that may soon be getting RYF certification.

They're expensive as fuck, but probably the most powerful non-botnet computers that exist. Comparable to Xeons/Epyc.

https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

PowerPC:

The company that still makes this is NXP

https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/power-architecture-processors

Here is a project for a Libre PowerPC laptop using NXP, shooting for RYF certification.

https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/

EmbeddedPlanet has several PowerPC SBCs, most using NXP.

https://www.embeddedplanet.com/product/single-board-computers/

MIPS:

The /csg/ of desktops. Lemote is a chink company that sells libre MIPS boards, using PMON firmware.

http://www.lemote.com/html/product/

A German anon on this board says he is going to work with Lemote to resell their stuff.

EmbeddedPlanet also has MIPS boards with processors from Cavium with U-boot firmware.

https://www.embeddedplanet.com/single-board-computers/processor/cavium-oceteon-ii/

RISC-V:

Only SBCs here. SiFive has some.

https://www.sifive.com/products/freedom/

There's also LowRISC

http://www.lowrisc.org/

There is also thread >>826868 , which technically could make this a duplicate.

>>831856

I like this one's title better it's the same one I used when I started this list on halfchan

>>831651 (OP)

OP thanks for making one of these here.

There was another short-lived /hrt/ thread fairly recently where I decided to highlight the EOMA68 for ARM SBC. Mainly that's because I re-read the page and saw that it's going for all-the-way RYF cert.

>>831651 (OP)

Reminder about the x220 and the rest of the **20 series thinkpads might be getting libreboot soon.

http://archive.is/o0ctz

>>832415

You can ask them about the firmware

Message sent. Now we wait.

>>832427

In the message, I suggested that if their firmware really is open, they could advertise that as a feature.

MUHHHH FOSSSS

>>832939

Yay someone replied to this thread.

finally

if anyone here want help about the asus c201 I can help, I'm posting from on.

(it is the chromebook that can be librebooted).

Mine isn't because wifi (I couldn't get GPU to work correctly anyway)).

>>832406

>management blocks progress

As usual, Peter Principle is the greatest hurdle of the electronics industry.

>>832415

>sata 3 controllers

>ethernet

>ARM

I think it's unlikely they can get away with free firmware, but they could release some of it for free with the blobs in it.

>>833312

Yeah I'm not expecting Libreboot on everything here, but I expect at least Coreboot-levels of freedom.

For anything with a processor made by Intel Corporation or AMD, I accept nothing less than Libreboot, or in Purism's case, a commitment to getting there, just due to how shady those motherfuckers are. For other architectures. I will accept mostly free, but with blobs.

UPDATE:

Zhaoxin Semiconductor has been permanently removed.

VIA has been temporarily removed (there's Coreboot potential).

GnuBee has been added. They have two NAS devices that are MIPS and going for RYF

https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1

https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2

EOMA68 has been added

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

iMX6 Rex has been added

http://www.imx6rex.com/open-rex/

References to Olimex and Beagle have been taken out for now.

And PogoLinux hasn't gotten back to me yet.

Every Loongson system past what Stallman used requires non-free firmware.

>>831652

>Raptor Engineering sells POWER9 workstations

No Raptor WILL sell POWER9 systems when if IBM gets off their asses and releases the POWER9 CPU for retail sale.

If IBM wasn't a completely useless company they would have capitalized on the INTEL/ME/MINIX hype that is going on now.

They where supposed to release the chips by the end of 2017 and not looking like that will happen. Any big delay and that may end up killing Raptor and tanking any hope of an open POWER9 market getting started.

>>833879

Daily reminder that firmware that is not actually modified in practice is as good as hardware. For example, your microwave might have some kind of flashable firmware capability, but that doesn't matter if it is normal that nobody touches it during the microwave's life.

>>831651 (OP)

>/hrt/

Nice tranny thread

>>833976

PC firmware is changed though, see linux-firmware or whatever. Also the microwave would still be very bad if it had networking.

UPDATE: anon on halfchan has provided a link to the OpenFirmware source code for Powerbooks, Powermacs, iBooks, and the like. They are now in the list.

https://code.coreboot.org/p/openfirmware/source/tree/HEAD/

>>834087

So tell me about the firmware that you can find in the Lemote computers that are able to run a free BIOS and Lignux.

No bosses no rulers.

>>833976

>>834087

If it has networking, it should be free as in freedom.

If it doesn't, the firmware should have ability to downgrade and/or newer versions should possess trivially noticeable improvements over older versions.

>>833894

An update from Raptor to those who have pre-ordered Talos II systems for the original Q4 2017 window:

(I asked when they were planning on shipping by, as I have a holiday coming up.)

>While we are still on track for the Talos PCBs and related components

>for a late December shipment, IBM has retargeted the final version of

>the POWER9 processor for very early January. Given this, if you need the

>system in Q4 we can ship it to you with an earlier CPU revision, then

>send out the production CPU as soon as it becomes available (advance

>exchange RMA, no cost to you). If you go this route, you would need to

>swap out the CPU(s) in your system (unmount HSF, replace CPU, remount

>HSF). Otherwise we can wait for the production CPU and ship your system

>with the production CPU later in January when you will be available to

>receive it.

>

>Which would you like to do? You have some time to decide, so no rush.

>

>We will be notifying our Q4 customers of this and offering this choice

>individually to each of them. The extra silicon revision on IBM's side

>was just enough to force production CPU availability out of Q4 and into Q1.

>>834403

thanks for bringing this news to 8ch.

UPDATE: Added SPARC

>>834403

I really hope TALOS makes it.

>>834828

Same here. The whole "ship it with the older CPU now at no extra charge" thing seems very nice. I can tell they care about what they're doing here. This delay is all on IBM.

Not sure but I saw somewhere that IBM is plans on making consumer tech anytime soon. I hope it happens though (fuck off NSA)

>>835791

>>835808

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